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Originally Posted by cavtroop
While its an intriguing idea, and would add a very interesting and real twist to a game, I generally don't have children in my games. Not a place I generally want to go given RL circumstances.
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Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK
I'm the same, I usually avoid having kids in the game as I find it a bit too close to the real world. Funny isn't it, that we have no problem with society being destroyed and devastated and the whole world going to hell in a hand basket, but yet the idea of kids in peril makes us uncomfortable.
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Perhaps this is an area where the mindset is influenced by whether one is actively gaming or not...
I haven't gamed for somehere in the region of ten years and if I'm being honest it's highly unlikely that will change in the next ten years. However I do enjoy creative writing, and at the moment my primary outlet for that is T2K. Reading this thread purely from a writer's perspective, I immediately began to envisage various characters that would fit the outlined scenario (I just can't help it doing that - character generation has always been the best part of RP'ing for me). Paul's suggestion just happened to fit in with a few thoughts I had had (not so much the kid specifically, but the idea of an entire family, the head of whom was the senior remaining diplomat so was, nominally at least, in charge).
Maybe the key difference is that as a writer, one ultimately retains full control of all of one's characters...you can determine what level of threat (if any) the eight year old kid - or any other character - is exposed to and what the consequences are, whereas in an RPG many factors are determined at random by the roll of a dice...
Hope that makes sense...and to you guys who are playing
any RPG regularly (but especially T2K!) I envy you!
